1998

Jazz Piano Scales, Grades 1-5

Introduction Fingering Practice routines The Exam Speeds Grade 1 Scales Dorian on D (2 octaves) Mixolydian on G (2 octaves) C Major (2 octaves) Major Pentatonic on C (five notes) ♭3 Pentatonic on G (five notes) Arpeggios G Major (1 octave) D Minor (1 octave) Grade 2 Scales Dorian on A (2 octaves) Mixolydian on …

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Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Hardback Programmheft accompoanying 1998 Neuinszenierung at Staatsoper Unter den Linden directed by Harry Kupfer with designs by Hans Schavernoch. Includes Besetzungszettel for 24 March 2008; this could have been the date when I saw this production myself. «Man muß endlich aufhören, sich für die Meistersinger zu entschuldigen!»   Gespräch mit Harry Kupfer über seine Neuinszenierung Unter …

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Nazi Germany and the Jews, Volume I

A Beginning and an End Into the Third Reich Consenting Elites, Threatened Elites Redemptive Anti-Semitism The New Ghetto The Spirit of Laws The Entrapment Crusade and Card Index Paris, Warsaw, Berlin—and Vienna An Austrian Model? The Onslaught A Broken Remnant

Verdi’s Theater

Verdi, Dramatist Aesthetics Working on the Libretto Melodrama Metamorphoses I Metamorphoses II Music Drama Unity

The Chronicle of Opera

Introduction 1589-1761: Baroque Opera 1589-1634: The New Art 1635-1646: Opera in Venice 1647-1677: Italian Opera Reaches Paris 1678-1702: France, Germany, Paris 1703-1731: The Second Century of Opera 1717-1731: Prima Donnas and Castrati 1732-1739: The Seeds of Change 1740-1761: The Death of Handel 1762-1850: Classical and Romantic Opera 1762-1775: Opera is Reborn 1776-1780: Melodrama and Singspiel …

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Gerald Finzi

From Padua to Harrogate Youthful indiscretions Arts and Crafts in the Cotswolds London A problematic portfolio Marriage and maturity Aldbourne and Ashmansworth Finzi’s war The Three Choirs composer Scholarship and conservation Time’s wingèd chariot Afterwards Appendix: Love’s Labour’s Lost

German Army Uniforms and Insignia, 1933-1945

Preface Introduction The National Emblem of Germany and the Reich Cockade Ranks and Rank Insignia Badges and Insignia Uniforms – Tunics, Military Clothing, Head-Dress and Footwear Personal Equipment Select Chronology Glossary Bibliography